In junior high we wore a school T-shirt and blue drawstring basketball shorts. I think I only took one semester of gym in junior high and switched to dance and had to wear a leotard. And I did JROTC in early high school so I had to wear an Air Force uniform. Later in high school, in a different state, I took a wildlife course instead of gym.

In high school, one of our gym teachers was an alcoholic who always wore dark glasses. One day when we were practicing archery, she got confused and had some of us retrieve our arrows while others were still shooting. Hjinks ensued.

Middle school: red mesh shorts and this awful, thick reversible shirt. Everything was bought from the school and had the school logo. They replaced the shirts with plain t-shirts with the school logo. We could wear any sweatshirt or sweatpants with it when the weather was cold, and anything other than athletic shoes was a dress cut.

High school was the same (PE is only required in California for the first 2 years) save for a mesh shirt and everything in the school colors, blue and white. I mean, it was all really ugly but not awful, and I kept the shorts to work out in.

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What if you have a really long torso? The one-piece romper deal seems super uncomfortable. Especially during the gymnastics unit. How do you do a back bend in a polyester romper???? Frontal wedgie anyone??

What if you have a really long torso? The one-piece romper deal seems super uncomfortable. Especially during the gymnastics unit. How do you do a back bend in a polyester romper???? Frontal wedgie anyone??

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Oh, not to worry...there was PLENTY of extra fabric built into the bloomer bottoms to do any sort of athletic maneuver you could imagine. VERY roomy in the tushy.

Gymsuits, what a nightmare. Ours were a bit like RCW's only the bloomers were not as far down your legs. They snapped up the front, so if you were busty (which I was not!) you tended to pop the snaps. They were cotton and had no stretch at all and wrinkled horribly. To top it off, they were a really ugly shade of green.

Gymsuits, what a nightmare. Ours were a bit like RCW's only the bloomers were not as far down your legs. They snapped up the front, so if you were busty (which I was not!) you tended to pop the snaps. They were cotton and had no stretch at all and wrinkled horribly. To top it off, they were a really ugly shade of green.

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No gymsuits..LOL! I went to private schools. We had to wear sweatpants and sweatshirts. In warm weather we could wear t-shirts and sweat shorts that came mid thigh. It was preferred that no pictures or words were on them but any sports team was allowed. I wore NY Giants gear a lot!

No gymsuit here--another NYC kid. We had to bring gym clothes to school and I usually wore an oversized t-shirt and leggings (late 80s/early 90s...). But I guess our school did sell gym t-shirts because Ad Rock famously wore one in a video. He was there a few years before me, though.